Podcast Episodes

Episode 501: The Wee Waa Monster and Tupandactylus

Further reading:

Pterosaur melanosomes support signalling functions for early feathers

Show transcript:

Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your…

1 day, 8 hours ago

NEW Episode 500: Crikey, it’s 500 episodes!

It’s our 500th episode! Wow!

Thanks to Rosie, Remy and Julien, and Dylan, Emily, and Michelle for their suggestions this week!

Further reading:

Crike…

1 week, 1 day ago

Episode 499: The Mystery of Amiskwia

Further reading:

Cambrian Explosion Month #18: Stem-Gnathifera

Ambiguous Amiskwia

Amiskwia, possibly [picture taken from above link]:

Show transcrip…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Episode 498: Octopolis

Further reading:

https://sharonahill.substack.com/

https://metazoan.net/54-octlantis/

https://metazoan.net/109-octopolis-and-octlantis/

Scientists di…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Episode 497 Megarachne

Megarachne as we know it now:

Show transcript:

Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.

Megarachne is only known from two speci…

4 weeks, 1 day ago

Episode 496 Two Mystery Invertebrates

Further reading:

How did a tiny bee get to French Polynesia? Eight new species help solve a scientific mystery

Secrets in the canopy: Scientists disc…

1 month ago

Episode 495 The Koao

Further reading:

Gauguin’s Magical Mystery Koao

Show transcript:

Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.

The French painter Pa…

1 month, 1 week ago

Episode 494: Four Water Animals

Further reading:

New species of extinct vampire-squid-like cephalopod

When teeth grow on the body

Fossil shark turns into mystery pterosaur

Scientist…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Episode 493: NEW The Mystery of Esconichthys and Friends

Yes, this is a NEW episode! Thanks to Eesa, Grace, and Viki for their suggestions this week. (Actual episode starts at 3 minutes 28 seconds.)

Find th…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Episode 492: Basilosaurids

Further reading:

Giant early whale Basilosaurus hunted the calves of other whales

Show transcript:

Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host,…

2 months ago